It was easier than usual this month to select my Perfect Post Award recipient. Andrew from The Gunsmoke Files doesn’t write often, but when he does, it’s always good. In his post Gimme Shelter he matter-of-factly gives his observations on the homeless in Denver. He didn’t get overly emotional, which just made what he had to say more compelling. See the entire list of October Perfect Post Awards at Petroville and at Suburban Turmoil.

The finalists in the 2007 Weblog Awards have been named. Quite a few of my friends and favorites made the cut! They are: The Presurfer for Best Blog, deputy dog for Best New Blog, Jon Swift and Boobs, Injuries, and Dr. Pepper for Funniest Blog, xkcd and Basic Instrucions for Best Comic, Fark for Best Online Community, Shakesville for Best Liberal Blog, NYC Educator for Best Education Blog, Bad Astronomy Blog for Best Science Blog, and Crooks and Liars for Best Video Blog. Congratulations to all! See the list of finalists here.

 Update: Congratulations to Jesus’ General, Driftglass, Simply Left Behind, and Konagod, who are all finalists in the Ecosystem categories, which were announced after I posted this yesterday.

The winners of the BOB Awards have been announced. Congratulations to Monty for winning Best Podcast and NYC Educator for winning Best Educational/Homeschooling Blog! Konagod came in second for Best GLBT Blog, and Omegamom came in third for Best Infertility/Adoption Blog. Way to go!

Its my Blogiversary! Yep, Miss Cellania has been around a year now. I’ve had lots of fun getting here, as well as a few adventures, and some really strange and unexplained ghosts in my site, the kind even ubergeeks can’t exorcise. I regularly joke that I started blogging to meet guys. The truth is, I started blogging as therapy. It became a hobby, and then became my social life. Don’t frown on that; what it replaced was no social life at all!

As is the custom in the Blogosphere, I’ll reprint my first post, from August 22nd, 2005.

Welcome to Miss Cellania

I love reading other folk’s blogs, so I’ve been toying with the idea of having my own. I’m a single working mother, so what I REALLY need is another hobby to take up all that spare time. I’m neither a gifted nor a prolific writer (though some may argue with the prolific part), and the everyday events of my life are nothing to write home about. Well, maybe the home folks care, but not the general public. And I KNOW no one cares about my opinions, though I have some. There is no broad field of interest I am an expert in. And I sometimes end a sentence with a preposition. So I will try to keep the personal rambling short, and devote this blog to fun stuff that you may enjoy. Contributions are welcome, so if you come across anything interesting, email me. Let me know if I can use your name.

To start things off, here is one of my favorite music videos. Also here is a really strange and difficult game. I've just started trying to figure it out. So far, I've crashed it, burned it, and punctured it. A real time-waster.

Thought for Today- The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Really smacks you in the face, doesn’t it? Pfft! But I’m glad to have an opportunity to repost it. The poor thing died in the process of importing files to Squarespace. It never made it over here. A couple days into this project, I started to get into the swing of things. In fact, Wedding Announcements from August 24th is probably still one of the funniest things I’ve ever published. Any highlights after that I put in a file called Popular Posts, which can always be found in the sidebar to the right. Also, at the end of every month I post the “best links” of the month. In the older archives, these were posted at the first of the next month. I changed it when I figured out how little sense that made. Its been a really good year, and getting better all the time! I’ve met some wonderful people (you know who you are), of all ages and backgrounds, from all over. And this site is steadily growing... I’ve had more visitors in the last three months than I had in the first whole nine months! Just in the last month, I was invited to join the team at Yesbutnobutyes, done a co-blogging project with Neatorama, and been asked to write an article for an online magazine! But most of all, I’ve had a lot of fun with this blog. And I’ll continue to do this as long as I can pay for the bandwidth (yeah, I had to buy more last week). Or as long as folks come around to read.

 I told Wendell the check is in the mail, but you can't buy a review like this. Thanks, sweetie.

 Hoodlumman posted a sweet little greeting.

Miss Cellania, who single-handedly can compile the best and funniest things about any topic at all - and does it every single day! -Alex, Neatorama

GAG PICS

Some of my favorite means of poking fun at myself over the last year.

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Frontier Editor caused some controversy when he Photoshopped me a fine moustache.

 

 

 
You can make my Muglet dance!

 

 

 

 

With the Mini-Mizer, you can make Lego people who look like people you know! This is me.

Design yourself with the Candybar Dollmaker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change the age, gender, or race of your face with the Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer. I made a man out of myself.

 

 

 

And there’s no program that will cause this. I just wanted to show you the Naked Cowboy again!

 

 

 

 Step right up to Miss Cellania's and discover for yourself what a blog should be like. Highly recommended. -Administrator, JTRForums

 

 ROLL CREDITS

Thanks to Figlet for getting me interested in blogging in the first place, to Clueless in Carolina and Omegamom for inspiring me to jump in (the "me, too" reaction), to Ed and his sister Eva for lots of submissions and suggestions, to Mike, Wulfweard, and Arbroath for a ton of stolen material, to FTS for dragging me to Squarespace (just in the nick of time, it turned out), to Hoss for the help he’s given me, to Scaramouch for hiring me at slave wages for his big dog blog, to Alex at Neatorama for the traffic and encouragement, to the usual suspects for visiting and commenting every day, to my brother for the graphics (including  my new banner) and video help and lots of suggestions, and to Carl, for always being there. Except for today, when he’s underwater somewhere off the coast of South America. Go figure.

Thought for today: A little message for all friends and visitors.

PS. I just received the most appropriate Blogiversary gift! Saskboy  has fixed my old  Blogspot site! Now  people who go there can find out where the new site is!  Thank  you thank you thank you!

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After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, a team of experts has found and corrected many, many errors and other bad things about my feeds. Thats a problem when you let a blonde comedian loose in the back alley of an unfamiliar site. I think you might be able to sign up for RSS and other feeds of Miss Cellania now! Give it a try, and if you encounter more problems, let me know. Thanks!

PS If you've ever wondered what I would look like with a mustache, you may now know. 

 

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